Tag: Ukraine

Manuel Ochsenreiter and Foreign Minister of Donetsk People´s Republic, Natalia Nikonorova
The German Center for Eurasian Studies conducted two electoral and crisis observation missions in both people´s republics in Donbasss in July and September this year. The director of the German Center, Manuel Ochsenreiter, witnessed the preparations, organization and presentation of the candidates of the Donbass primaries. Continue reading “Primaries in Donbass: Succesful Observation Mission”

Manuel Ochsenreiter (Director of the German Center for Eurasian Studies), Mikhail Tyasko (vice chairman of the World Council of Carpathian Rusyns) and Vasyl Dzhuhan (chairman of the World Council of Carpathian Rusyns) presenting the Rusyn flag in Prague

The German Center for Eurasian Studies met in Prague leading representatives of the World Council of Carpathian Rusyns. The talks were about the political situation of the national minority of Rusyns in Transcarpathia which is today part of Ukraine. The talks were about the level of discrimination by the Kiev government and the ignorance of the EU institutions.

Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said in the beginning of June that he is willing to give Crimean Tatars political and cultural autonomy in case Crimea comes back to Ukraine. Hungarian MP Márton Gyöngyösi (Jobbik) sees in Poroshenko´s plan a “political statements clearly directed against Russia”. Gyöngyösi: “Mr. Poroshenko doesn´t have any credibility when it comes to ethnic minority rights issues.” The Hungarian politician demands “self-governance and cultural autonomy” for ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. Continue reading “Hungarian MP demands autonomy for ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine”

Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the EU establishment. With a turnout of 32.2%, the threshold for a valid referendum was met. 61.59% of votes were Against the Approval Act.